surviving the food allergy apocalypse

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  • WW Kitchen Stories: Mary Kate's Rice Cooker

    If you are gluten-free, you might find that rice becomes an even more important staple in your diet. I actually discovered the variety of rices out there  when I tried out eating vegan for a while right after I cut out dairy (and as far as I know, my friend Cathy may still be eating…

  • WW Kitchen Stories: Rosemary or Denise's Spice Issues

    My name is Denise and I have an addiction to spices and some sort of spacial evaluation dysfunction where I am unable to translate how much a quantity of spice I am ordering will actually be in real life. I have a free standing wooden cabinet that is five feet tall and about a foot…

  • WW Kitchen Stories: Denise’s KitchenAid Mixer

    So in Mary Kate’s inaugural kitchen story post she asked what the workhorse pieces in your kitchen are and if they had a history. My workhorse piece is my KitchenAid mixer. And it does have a bit of a story. When I was a kid (there’s some debate over the exact age, I thought it was…

  • WW Guest Post: Ann Winslow, Chef, on food allergies

    Note from Mary Kate: Ann is a good friend of mine from college (during which, no, no one including me used my first name) who who is an artist and chef. In one of our conversations, she mentioned that food allergies were a hot topic in the restaurant world. Of course — that makes complete sense.…

  • WW Kitchen Stories: Mary Kate's Kettle

    Hey, we sort of hit a wall writing about living with food allergies, just like we hit a wall before that writing about personal care products we make, and home cleaning products we make. It turns out, sometimes there are only so many things to say about any given topic. At least for now. We…

  • WW: Living with Food Allergies — Trust and "The Man."

    Full disclosure: Denise and I both work for government. So, yes, sometimes, we’re “the man.” And, yes, we understand the jokes (we really are here to help), and we fully understand the limitations of working within institutional guidelines. I like to think we inspire trust through competence and, at least in my case, admitting that I don’t…

  • WW: Living with Food Allergies – Getting Sick while Getting Well

    One of the surprising things about having food allergies is the fear of getting sick and whether the process of getting well will make you sicker. It’s much more complicated than you might imagine. In January, I managed to get either bronchitis or pneumonia, which affected my asthma to the point that my nurse practitioner…

  • WW: Living with Food Allergies — Diagnosis

    How were your food allergies diagnosed? Denise and I have both posted our diagnosis stories in our blog bios. The medical tests recommended for each of us were different — her allergist recommended skin scratch tests, and my doctor had referred me to a naturopathic doctor because she couldn’t help, and my naturopath was the…